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Show FORD'S NITRATE OFFER PLEADED South Hopes for Immense Benefits In Power and Fertilizer CHICAGO, Nov 22 (By the Associated Asso-ciated Prcsf) Tho southern Commercial Commer-cial congress clonr-d Ua fifteenth annual an-nual convention today with a discussion discus-sion of the trinity of transportation, railways, highways and waterways, and foreign crtnt3 for International trade. The annual banquet will bo held tonight, at which governors of Nebraska, Maryland and Virginia nnl t ho ambassador of Peru bae been Invited In-vited to speak. HUGE OUTLAYS CITFP. , A plea for support in persuading conprcss to sell thr- Muscle Shoals nitrate ni-trate plant to Henry Ford wOfl presented pre-sented to th congress thin morning by w T. McCown president of tho r aioiic 1 1 1 c ana laucuiii uuuu ljt, i u-nessee, u-nessee, chamber of commerce I LTndST Mr Ford's operation of the plant, Mr. MoCown said, the cost of nltrat' feYttllzers would be reduced two-thirds; power, heat and light would be so cheapened as to bring Industrial In-dustrial freedom to America, and "society "so-ciety will make great strides instead 6f eking out an existence." "Governments should be operate 1 for the good of the governed.," :;ald Mr McCown, "thu navy and army cout about a billion n yuar for the good of j tho public. Tin Philippines cost that all told this for the sake of human- Ity. Our harbors cost Immense, sums each year for the public good. The! Panama canal cost 3 26, 000, 000. Irrigation Irri-gation and the Roosevelt dam In th-west th-west have cost millions and no ono I protested. WANTS o.M-V SUPPORT "Now in the development of the great power plant at Muscle Shoals.; though the government has spent ' more than $1oO.Oim.doo, this is to b1 returned under the bid of Ford. but. still to be used as an explosive plant In case of war We arc not asking j you for millions but are asking you for your representatives in congress to ' assist us in placing Henry Ford in I charge of this great enterprise. "We arc in the grip of the great Chilean nitrate monopoly. The south must have fertilizers. Fertilizers that cost us $'0 per ton 10 years ago now cost us $90 per ton It will mean a reduction of two-thirds on the cost of this one article alone It will mean the lighting, the heating, tho giving power to all parts of the country In fact It will mean the Industrial freedom free-dom of America. ... In this way the government really keeps and develops de-velops a natural resource at the same time. ' nn |